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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Hi friends! My CAS card today is being entered in 2 different challenges. This card has no stamping at all. You could stamp "you" under the love die.

Here are the challenges...

I CASEd my good friend Maureen's card that she posted for one of StampNation's Winterland Challenges. To create the perfect rhinestone heart, die cut or punch a heart, lightly traced around it with a pencil and then placed the rhinestones along the lines. Perfection! Thanks for the inspiration Maureen! :)

Hi friends! I am joining in another CAS-ual Fridays challenge which is to create a CAS project using markers!! This is the first time I have pulled out my SU! markers to color on a card in a long time. Can you see the Crystal Effects on the cherries? It is hard to photograph to make it shine.

Monday, January 28, 2013

The challenge was to use only black and white while using at least one Papertrey Ink product. I am in love with their word dies. So very easy to put a quick card together with these dies. I used their Counting my blessings die. This card is for all of my lovely blog readers! :)

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Hi Friends! Today I am playing along with Fresh Squeezed Stamps Squeeze-A-Palooza #4 challenge. There will be two winners one will be randomly chosen and the other
will be readers choice, the card with the most likes. So please go over
and vote for the card you like the best by clicking on "like" beneath your favorite card. :)

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Hi friends! Kara from KandRDesigns is hosting a challenge to celebrate her 100th week of pinning to her Friday Inspiration File. The challenge is to create something based on a project in that file. There are lots of inspirational projects to choose from, however I chose to CASE Maile Belles card.

I love the beauty of Maile's card, thank you for the inspiration Maile! Her card is much better than my card, I digress. I also loved that it was an easy card to mass produce, especially since I am working on my 2013 Christmas cards already. I am happy to say I have 30 of my 150 completed.

Thanks, Kara, for hosting this challenge, and for your inspiration file.
I love your work, and I love your choices for inspiration!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Hi Friends, today is my first time ever playing along with 10 minute Craft Dash challenge #10. Here is my card...

This was the challenge.....

Pink, gray and green reminded me of flowers/spring. I searched for the perfect stamps and finally settled on this lovely flower from SU! I had the card all done and thought it needed a little something extra. That is when I thought of paper piercing the circle around the top of the flower. I think it adds just the right touch. I finished my card in 9 minutes and 10 seconds. PHEW!!! This challenge was a fun one but certainly gets your heart pumping to be able to finish it on time.

Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Gray (SU!)

Ink: Basic Gray, Certainly Celery & Pretty in Pink

Stamps: Summer Silhouettes & Very Vintage Greetings (Wplus9)

Accessories: Paper Piercing pack (SU!)

I am also sharing a card I made for a Sketch Challenge over at StampNation. This is challenge #65. Here is the sketch.

The sketch above is based on a Christmas card my good friend Catherine made a while back. Her card is amazing and here is my take on the sketch.

If you love inspiration, ideas, exclusive videos, making new friends, etc. I would encourage you to join StampNation! It is a wonderful community.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Merry Monday's challenge was to make a Christmas card (woohoo!) with a bird. This challenge was right up my alley, see yesterday's post. :) I just got the Perched Reed Bird die from Memory Box dies the other day and couldn't wait to use it on a card.

I am very excited to join in the first ever Muse Challenge. The challenge was to draw inspiration from Amy Kolling's card. I was inspired by her design/layout and I just love her card!

Monday, January 21, 2013

For my card I took a small piece of cardstock placed the Washi tape over it and then die cut merry. I am trying to get a head start on my 2013 Christmas cards and I am making a pretty good dent so far. I usually make 150 cards to send out to friends and family. I have 16 done so far. My goal is to make a dozen or so a month. My good friends/sistahs over at StampNation are helping to keep me motivated to meet my goal.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

This week over atStampNation we are having a Winterland Celebration to help beat the "Winter Blues". Today's challenge was to make a card using shades of blue.

StampNation is a membership site with almost 270 video tutorials, weekly
challenges, written tutorials, lessons in CAS stamping and SO much
more. I hope you'll come and check us out. I'd love to see you there!

Friday, January 18, 2013

The challenge is to create a CAS card that has one long side and one short side.I usually make A2 cards so this was a fun challenge for me though I am not sure this is considered a CAS card. What do you all think? I used the block stamping technique on this card.